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Urge not my father’s anger, Eglamour, 
But think upon my grief. Shakspcare. 
To follow close, so as to impel. 
Man ? and for ever ? wretch ! what wouldst thou have ? 
Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. Pope. 
To labour vehemently; to do with eagerness, or violence. 
He, seiz’d with horror, in the shades of night. 
Through the thick desarts headlong urg'd his flight. Pope. 
To press; to enforce. 
The enemy’s in view ; draw up your powers ; 
Your haste is now urg'd on you. Shakspcare. 
To press as an argument. 
He pleaded still not guilty; 
The king’s attorney, on the contrary. 
Urg'd on examinations, proofs, confessions, 
Of divers witnesses. Shakspeare. 
To importune; to solicit. 
He urged sore, 
With piercing words and pitiful implore. 
Him hasty to arise. Spenser. 
To press in opposition, by way of objection.—Though 
every man have a right in dispute to urge a false religion, 
with all its absurd consequences ; yet it is barbarous incivility 
scurrilously to sport with that which others account religion. 
Tillotson. 
To URGE, v. n. To press forward. 
A palace, when ’tis that which it should be. 
Stands such, or else decays : 
But he which dwells there is not so; for he 
Strives to urge upward, and his fortune raise. Donne. 
URGEL, a strong town in the north-east of Spain, in 
Catalonia, on the river Segre. It is a bishop’s see, and has 
3200 inhabitants; 78 miles north-north-west of Barcelona, 
and 296 east-north-east of Madrid. 
U'RGENCY, s. Pressure of difficulty or necessity.— 
Being for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of 
nature, I was under great difficulties between urgency and 
shame. Swift. —Entreaty; solicitation.—Neither would 
he have done it at all but at my urgency. Swift. 
U'RGENT, adj. [ urgens , Lat.] Cogent; pressing ; 
violent. 
Not alone 
The death of Fulvia, but more urgent touches, 
Do strongly speak to us. Shakspeare. 
Importunate; vehement in solicitation.—The Egyptians 
were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out 
in haste. Exod. 
U'RGENTLY, ado. Cogently; violently; vehemently; im¬ 
portunately.—Acrimony in their blood, and afflux of humours 
to their lungs, urgently indicate phlebotomy. Harvey. 
U'RGER, s. One who presses; importuner.—I wish 
Pope were as great an urger as I. Swift. 
U'RGEWONDER, s. A sort of grain.—This barley is 
called by some urgewonder. Mortimer. 
URGUNGE, or Urghenz, the name given to an exten¬ 
sive track of territory situated on the Lower Oxus, near its 
junction with the Aral, and between that lake and the 
Caspian. 
URI, a canton in the central part of Switzerland, bounded 
on the north by the canton of Unterwalden, on the east by 
the country of the Grisons. Its superficial extent is 640 
square miles; but its population does not exceed 14,000, 
being thinly scattered amidst bleak and barren mountains, 
some of which attain an elevation of 8000, or 10,000 feet. 
The road from Germany to Italy passes through this canton, 
and gives the benefit of some transit trade to its inhabitants. 
They are a simple, but independent race, mindful of the 
share which their ancestors, along with their countrymen of 
the adjacent canton of Schweitz and Unterwalden, had in 
the assertion of Swiss liberty. 
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URIDGE, a hamlet of England, in Wiltshire, near Chip¬ 
penham. 
URIE, or Ury, a considerable river of Scotland, in 
Aberdeenshire, which rises in the district of Strathbogie, and, 
after a course of 24 miles, mostly through Garioch, being 
joined in its course by the Gady, the Shevock, and the 
Lochter, it falls into the Don at the royal burgh of Inverary. 
UR1ES, Cape, a cape on the north coast of Staten island. 
Lat. 46. N. long. 149. 20. E. 
U'RIM, s. Urim and thummim were something in 
Aaron’s breast-plate; but what critics and commentators 
are by no means agreed. The word urim signifies light, 
and thummim perfection. It is most probable that they 
were only names given to signify the clearness and certainty 
of the divine answers which were obtained by the high priest 
consulting God with his breast-plate on, in contradistinction 
to the obscure, enigmatical, uncertain, and imperfect answers 
of the heathen oracles. Newton. 
He in celestial panoply, all arm’d 
Of radiant urim, work divinely wrought. Milton. 
U'RINAL, s. [; urinal , Fr.] A bottle, in which water 
i kept for inspection.—These follies shine through you, like 
the water in an urinal Shakspeare. 
URINARIUM, a name sometimes applied to a sort of 
reservoir, or place constructed in the ground for the recep¬ 
tion of urine, and the liquid matters discharged from the 
stables, cattle-sheds, pig-sties, and other places situated about 
the farm-yard. 
U'RINARY, adj. Relating to the urine.—Diureticks 
that relax the urinary passages, should be tried before such a 
stimulant. Arbuthnot. 
U'RINATIVE, adj. Working by urine; provoking 
urine.—Medicines urinative do not work by rejection and 
indigestion as solutives do. Bacon. 
URINA'TOR, s. [urinator , Lat.] A diver; one who 
searches under water.—Those relations of urinators belong 
only to those places where they have dived, which are always 
rocky. Bay. 
U'RINE, s. [urina, Latin.] Animal water.—Drink, 
Sir, is a great provoker of nose-painting, sleep, and urine. 
Shakspeare. —The chyle cannot pass by urine nor sweat. 
Arbuthnot. 
To U'RINE, v. n. [uriner , Fr.] To make water.— 
No oviparous animal, which spawn or lay eggs, doth urine, 
except the tortoise. Brown. 
U'RINOUS, adj. Partaking of urine.—The putrid mat¬ 
ter being distilled, affords a water impregnated with an uri¬ 
nous spirit, like that obtainable from animal substances. 
Arbuthnot. 
URK, a small island in the Zuyder Zee, with one village, 
and nearly 600 inhabitants. It belongs to the province of 
North Holland. 
URKUP, or Ourcoup, a small town in the northern 
part of Caramania, in Asiatic Turkey, on the Kizil Irmak ; 
50 miles west-north-west of Kaisarieh. 
URLINGFORD, a village of Ireland, in the county of 
Kilkenny, situated at the verge of the county. 
URLOFFEN, a large village of the west of Germany, in 
Baden ; 9 miles east of Strasburg. Population 1500. 
URMENY, a petty town in the north-west of Hungary; 
8 miles south of Neutra, remarkable chiefly as the residence 
of count Hunyadi, one of the greatest land proprietors in 
Hungary. Lat. 48. 12. 31. N., long. 18. 3. 27. E. 
URMSTONE, a township of England, county of Lan¬ 
caster ; 6 miles south-west-by-west of Manchester. Popula¬ 
tion 595. 
URMUK, a small island in the Red sea, near the coast of 
Arabia; 3 miles south-south-west of Loheia. 
URN, s. [iirne, Fr.] Any vessel, of which the mouth 
is narrower than the body. 
Minos, the strict inquisitor, appears, 
And lives, and crimes, with his assessors, hears; 
Round, in his urn, the blended balls he rolls; 
Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden. 
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